This happens when you work in many languages, as I usually do.Some computers show the Japanese, some show hyroglyphs instead.

The problem usually lies with the encoding of languages of your own monitor.Here is how to change it:

On the top of each webiste and even on my email outlook express there is a VIEW button on the top tool bar, in the row of (mine says in Japanese, so I can only hope the words will be used in English thus...)

File... Edit ... View... Favorites...and so on

click on the VIEW option for a dropdown menu.

In my menue it is about the eighth line of optionsENCODE

If you click that, a wide variety of options again are shown.

There choose any form of Japanses (I have three choices for that alone) or European languages (YAHOO uses those mostly) or UNICODE if you use more languags than one, (this BLOG works with UNICODE UTF-8).

I have to constantly switch this button between the BLOG and the YAHOO forums, because they do not automatically adjust to the way a text was input ... ufff .

My Japanese friends sometimes get a blank page where it says on the bottom: "Page displayed". In this case too, if you change the encode system to UTF-8 you can suddenly see the text (even if it is not a Japanese text to start with...).

To read email at YAHOO with Japanese kanji, I have to switch to :日本語EUC . The Archives at YAHOO need Free Select Japanese.

If you use SHIFT ENTER at the end of a line, it will appear as just one space.> (In the word doc, it is the arrow facing straight downward)Normal ENTER will make it double spaced (that is the little hooked arrow in a word doc).

Firstly, if you are writing something that is going into an email then preferably use a text editor rather than a word-processor. If you MUST use a word-processor then try to avoid fancing formatting --use shift-enter to create line-breaks rather than just enter which creates a hard-return (which when copied to an email causes an extra line break).

Try saving text as a .txt file and copy-paste that into an email rather than copying from a .doc file.

Secondly, try setting your email program to send always as plaintext.

Yahoo seems to be trying to get everyone to use their Rich-Text editor. MS ships Word with the default settings of curly-quotes which Mac's can't read; Outlook Express ships with the default setting of something called "printed-quotable" which is anything but.